Minus the Bear - They Make Beer Commercials Like This (Transparent Blue Colored Vinyl) Wonder Years

Minus the Bear - They Make Beer Commercials Like This (Transparent Blue Colored Vinyl) Wonder YearsPop is a tag thats been assigned to Minus The Bear throughout their career. Its been used to set a distinction between the unique brand of complex indie rock they introduced on their first EP and the more angular and aggravated sounds of their previous bands Botch, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Keep Moving. Its also a tag that was thrown around frequently in the wake of their streamlined fourth album, OMNI. And its a descriptor that immediately comes to mind

Stevens and de Augustine ask us to consider ourselves from a previously unconsidered vantage point-a new way of seeing and hearing-an exercise that's as necessary and relevant now as it's ever been

a soulful snarl

May this album bring us all closer to ourselves and to each other

A 22-track anthematic tone poem to the Prairie State

For the album

TO THE EXTENT THAT AMERICAN HIP HOP OWES A DEBT TO JAMAICAN MUSIC

This RSD Black Friday vinyl collection also contains Eugene Pitt & The Jive Five’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” which has not been released since 1972

The Indications highlight a collective resiliency - as well as the power of a good song to be a light in the darkness

and messianic blues

and released her first EP as Squirrel Flower

to The Judds

This special 60th-anniversary reissue of groundbreaking jazz artist Sun Ra's iconic 1962 album